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    Bridges, William H., IV

    Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
    Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
    Office Location
    407 Lattimore Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-2235

    Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities

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  • Kristin Doughty

    Doughty, Kristin

    Associate Professor of Anthropology
    Interim Director, SBAI
    Office Location
    437 Lattimore Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-5155

    Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda

  • Joshua Dubler

    Dubler, Joshua

    Associate Professor of Religion
    Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
    Office Location
    428A Rush Rhees Library
    Telephone
    (585) 275-4756

    Interests: Religion in America

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    Ealey, Jordan

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    Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies

    Interests: Black feminist theory and praxis; Black theatre and performance; Nineteenth and twentieth century Black intellectual history, sound studies, popular music, and Black girlhood studies

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    Hunter, Cory

    Assistant Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
    Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
    Office Location
    1-341 Dewey Hall

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  • Cilas Kemedjio

    Kemedjio, Cilas

    Professor of French
    Office Location
    406 Lattimore
    Telephone
    (585) 275--425

    Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism

  • Jennifer Kyker

    Kyker, Jennifer

    Associate Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
    Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music
    Office Location
    1-308 Dewey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-0239

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    Mandala, Elias C.

    Professor of History
    Office Location
    439 Rush Rhees Library
    Telephone
    (585) 275-2058

    Interests: Southern Africa since the 19th Century; Social History

  • Kathryn Mariner

    Mariner, Kathryn

    Associate Professor of Anthropology
    Office Location
    444 Lattimore Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-8734

    Interests: intimacy and social inequality; politics of race, class and gender; temporality; kinship and adoption; care; social work; space and place; visual anthropology; United States

  • Marshall, Cona

    Assistant Professor of American Religions
    Office Location
    431 Rush Rhees Library
    Telephone
    Office (585) 275-9368

    Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric

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    McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.

    Frederick Douglass Professor
    Associate Professor of English
    Associate Professor of Black Studies
    Chair, Faculty Programs and Departmental Initiatives, Department of Black Studies
    Office Location
    311B Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 273-5346
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    McHarris, Philip V.

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    Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies

    Interests: Racial inequality, housing, and policing

  • John Michael

    Michael, John

    John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
    Professor of English
    Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
    Director, American Studies
    Interim Chair, Department of Black Studies
    Office Location
    405 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-9259

    Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

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    Omelsky, Matthew

    Assistant Professor of English
    Assistant Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies
    Office Location
    417 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-2376

    Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; film and media studies; speculative aesthetics; time and phenomenology; critical theory.

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    Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

    Associate Professor of English
    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English
    Office Location
    418 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-2064

    Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction

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  • Sharon Willis

    Willis, Sharon

    Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
    Professor of Art and Art History
    Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
    Office Location
    517 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-5757

    Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature